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J. L. RUSSELL. COMBINED PAPER WEIGHT AND CIGAR AND ASH HOLDER.

No. 371,901. Patented Oct. 18, 1887.

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JOHN L. RUSSELL, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

CDIVIBINED PAPER-WEIGHT AND ClGAR AND ASH HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,901, dated October 18, 1887.

Application filed March 21, 1887. Serial No. 231,636. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. RUssELL, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Combined Paper-Weight and Cigar and Ash Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device that by its construction is arranged to perform the functions of a paper-weight, cigar-holder, and ashholder, all of which functions it is adapted to perform at the same time and in connection, as distinguished from a combination device or tool in which the several parts perform several functions disconnectedly.

It is the object of my invention to combine with a paper-weight that is adapted for its ordinary use upon a tableor desk an added construction consisting of a groove made longitudinally in the top of the paper-weight, said groove being adapted to receive a lighted cigar when temporarily laid thereon by the smoker, and. a sink,also made in the top of the paper-weight'at one end of said groove, so that the cigar within the groove may haveits lighted end extending over the sinlgwhere the air can difficulties my invention is intended to obviate.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there is a sheet of drawings containing fourfigures illustrating my invention,with the same designation of parts by letter-reference used in all of them.

Of the illustrations, Figure 1 shows a perspective of a device containing my invention applied as a combined paperweight and cigar and ash holder. Fig. 2 shows a longitudinal central section taken on the line w :r of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a cross-section taken on the line 00 a5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows a erosssectio'n taken on the line 00 x of Fig. 1.

The several parts of the device thus illustrated are designated by letter'reference, and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letter B designates the body of the device made of such metal or other material as will give suffieient weight to it to keep papers in place when resting with its bottom surface thereon. r

The letter G designates a groove made in the top of the body longitudinally, and S a sink made therein at one end of said groove.

The letter O indicatesa cigar placed therein.

As thus made and arranged the device performs all the functions for which it is designed connectedly and conveniently.

' Having thus described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent,

A combined paper-weight and cigar and ash holder constructed with a body part that is adapted to rest upon papers to keep them in place, and made with a longitudinal groove suited to receive a cigar, and a sink formed withinthe body part at one end of said groove, substantially in the manner, as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at Troy, New-York, this 8th day of 7 February, 1887 in the presence of the two witnesses whose names are hereto written.

JOHN L. RUSSELL,

Witnesses:

CHARLES S. BRINTNALL, W. E. HOGAN. 

